Türkiye: We arrested 11 members of Habib Asyud's kidnapping network

According to this report, Habib Asyud, who had been living in exile in Sweden for 14 years, disappeared after entering Turkey.

According to the "TART" reporter, the rapid and extensive investigation by the Turkish MIA into the disappearance of Habib Asyud led to the discovery and dismantling of this network of kidnappers affiliated with Iranian security institutions.

Evidence obtained by the Turkish MIA shows that Habib Asyoud was trapped through a drug trafficker named Zindashti, who was an associate and under the control of the Iranian security apparatus and who abused his ex-wife (S. Saberin).

Asyut's ex-wife lures Habib to Istanbul with the promise of a 100,000 euro loan. On October 9, Habib Asyut goes to an address in Beylikduzu, Istanbul, near a gas station. At the meeting point, he boards a minibus that he thinks is his ex-wife's. However, as soon as he boards the minibus, he faints and is then kidnapped.

The kidnappers, who were members of the Zindashti network, took him to the city of Van in eastern Türkiye and then transferred him to Iran.

The report by the "TART" reporter states that Asyoud was under the surveillance of the Iranian Intelligence Organization due to his defense of the rights of the Arab minority in Iran and his responsibility in leading the "Arab Struggle for the Liberation of Ahwaz" in Sweden.

The report notes that eleven of the arrested people are Turkish citizens.

It has also been said about Zindashti that he was sentenced to death in Iran in connection with a drug trafficking case in 2007, but later fled to Turkey.

In the following years, the Istanbul Public Prosecutor's Office issued an indictment against this individual, charging him with crimes such as drug trafficking, establishing an armed criminal organization, kidnapping, and murder.

According to Turkish media sources, while the Istanbul Public Prosecutor's Office had demanded the maximum sentence of life imprisonment for Zindashti in 2018, he suddenly disappeared and then entered Iran and continued his "criminal" activities in Iran.